Yams — Yield in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)
Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs): Yams — Yield was 6,539 kg/ha in 2024. ▬ Flat
Yams — Yield in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, yams — yield in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) stood at 6,539 kg/ha.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.6% on the previous year and down 12.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, yams — yield in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) peaked at 8,975 kg/ha in 2002 and was at its lowest, 6,501 kg/ha, in 2023.
That places Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 16th out of 20 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
Yams — Yield in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs), year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 6,727 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 6,681 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1963 | 6,776 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1964 | 6,843 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1965 | 6,791 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1966 | 6,665 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1967 | 6,950 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 1968 | 7,070 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1969 | 6,721 kg/ha | -4.9% |
| 1970 | 6,914 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1971 | 7,212 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 1972 | 7,099 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1973 | 7,332 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 1974 | 7,320 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1975 | 7,537 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1976 | 7,393 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1977 | 6,934 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 1978 | 7,161 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 1979 | 7,199 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1980 | 8,265 kg/ha | +14.8% |
| 1981 | 8,400 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1982 | 8,263 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1983 | 7,836 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 1984 | 8,809 kg/ha | +12.4% |
| 1985 | 8,404 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 1986 | 8,638 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1987 | 8,195 kg/ha | -5.1% |
| 1988 | 8,419 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1989 | 8,494 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1990 | 8,462 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1991 | 8,570 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1992 | 8,344 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 1993 | 8,652 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 1994 | 8,364 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 1995 | 8,709 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 1996 | 8,550 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1997 | 8,971 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 1998 | 8,418 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 1999 | 8,710 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 2000 | 8,737 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2001 | 8,738 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2002 | 8,975 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 2003 | 8,897 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2004 | 8,830 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2005 | 8,533 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 2006 | 8,323 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 2007 | 7,951 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 2008 | 8,180 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 2009 | 7,540 kg/ha | -7.8% |
| 2010 | 7,580 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2011 | 7,897 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 2012 | 7,627 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 2013 | 7,595 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2014 | 7,487 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2015 | 7,081 kg/ha | -5.4% |
| 2016 | 7,167 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2017 | 7,012 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 2018 | 6,728 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 2019 | 6,810 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2020 | 6,685 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 2021 | 6,639 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2022 | 6,726 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2023 | 6,501 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 2024 | 6,539 kg/ha | +0.6% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6,803 kg/ha | 6,665 kg/ha | 7,070 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 7,210 kg/ha | 6,914 kg/ha | 7,537 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 8,372 kg/ha | 7,836 kg/ha | 8,809 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 8,575 kg/ha | 8,344 kg/ha | 8,971 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 8,470 kg/ha | 7,540 kg/ha | 8,975 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 7,298 kg/ha | 6,728 kg/ha | 7,897 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 6,618 kg/ha | 6,501 kg/ha | 6,726 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is yams — yield in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)?
- Yams — yield in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) was 6,539 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest yams — yield recorded in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 8,975 kg/ha in 2002.
- What is the lowest yams — yield recorded in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 6,501 kg/ha in 2023.
- How does Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) rank for yams — yield?
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) ranks 16th out of 20 groups with data for 2024.
- Is yams — yield rising or falling in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is down 12.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Yams — Yield. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area harvested, production quantity and yield. Cereals: Area and production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed or silage or used for grazing are therefore excluded. 2) CROPS PROCESSED: Beer of barley; Cotton lint; Cottonseed; Margarine, short; Molasses; Oil, coconut (copra); Oil, cottonseed; Oil, groundnut; Oil, linseed; Oil, maize; Oil, olive, virgin; Oil, palm; Oil, palm kernel; Oil, rapeseed; Oil, safflower; Oil, sesame; Oil, soybean; Oil, sunflower; Palm kernels; Sugar Raw Centrifugal; Wine. 3) LIVE ANIMALS: Animals live n.e.s.; Asses; Beehives; Buffaloes; Camelids, other; Camels; Cattle; Chickens; Ducks; Geese and guinea fowls; Goats; Horses; Mules; Pigeons, other birds; Pigs; Rabbits and hares; Rodents, other; Sheep; Turkeys. 4) LIVESTOCK PRIMARY: Beeswax; Eggs (various types); Hides buffalo, fresh; Hides, cattle, fresh; Honey, natural; Meat (ass, bird nes, buffalo, camel, cattle, chicken, duck, game, goat, goose and guinea fowl, horse, mule, Meat nes, meat other camelids, Meat other rodents, pig, rabbit, sheep, turkey); Milk (buffalo, camel, cow, goat, sheep); Offals, nes; Silk-worm cocoons, reelable; Skins (goat, sheep); Snails, not sea; Wool, greasy. 5) LIVESTOCK PROCESSED: Butter (of milk from sheep, goat, buffalo, cow); Cheese (of milk from goat, buffalo, sheep, cow milk); Cheese of skimmed cow milk; Cream fresh; Ghee (cow and buffalo milk); Lard; Milk (dry buttermilk, skimmed condensed, skimmed cow, skimmed dried, skimmed evaporated, whole condensed, whole dried, whole evaporated); Silk raw; Tallow; Whey (condensed and dry); Yoghurt.